Like
most boys growing up in Western Pennsylvania, Bob Pompeani dreamed
of playing big league sports. He excelled in baseball, basketball,
and football, but a heart condition that would require two open
heart surgeries sidelined his athletic ambitions. But Bob’s passion
for sports led him on a parallel path, with more than 25 years in
front of television cameras covering the games he loved so much.

A graduate of Hopewell High School and Point Park University, Bob
has received numerous broadcasting awards, including an Emmy for
Play by Play, three Golden Quills for outstanding Sports Reporting,
and five Associated Press awards for Best Sportscast. As sports
director for KDKA-TV, Bob has been recognized as Pittsburgh’s
Favorite Sportscaster in a Pittsburgh Post Gazette reader survey. In
2000 he was inducted into the Tri State PGA Hall of Fame and received
an honorary doctorate degree from (and issued the commencement
address at) Point Park University, which later gave him a
Distinguished Alumni Award. Bob was also the first man to receive
the Pittsburgh Beauty Academy’s Professional Image Award, was
voted Best Dressed TV Personality in another newspaper reader
survey, and was chosen Man of the Year by the BF Jones Memorial
Library in Aliquippa.

Bob’s illustrious career has taken him around
the globe, from the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, to the sunny
shores of Hawaii for the NFL Pro Bowl. He has also visited 600 local
high schools to present his Extra Effort Award to outstanding
scholar athletes. Bob is the host of Pittsburgh’s top rated sports
talk show The #1 Cochran Sports Showdown and The Subway Nightly
Sports Call, and he delivers television play by play for Steelers
preseason games.

Bob is active in his community and serves on the
board of directors for several charitable organizations, including
the American Heart Association and the Mario Lemieux Foundation. He
also hosts the Bob Pompeani Charity Golf Classic for Citizen’s Care,
which provides services to those with mental disabilities.